An Egyptian presenter is sentenced to one year in prison for interviewing a homosexual
GAYLES.TV.- To the Egyptian presenter Mohamed al Ghaity he is accused of "Contempt for religion, debauchery and propagate homosexuality". As reported EFE, for all these charges an Egyptian court has sentenced the presenter of the program "Sah al Num" (wake up!) to one year in prison, a fine of 3.000 Egyptian pounds, equivalent to about 168 dollars and a year of surveillance for inviting a young gay man to the show.
Al Ghaity was denounced by the Egyptian lawyer Samir Sabry to the Office of the Attorney General since, in the complainant's opinion, the presenter would be responsible for "Contradict the most basic religious rules and pillars and totally obviate the laws". Always according to Sabry, the presenter when addressing the young gay "He started asking lots of questions and all dirty and low level" adding that "The live responses were all even worse and they cannot be broadcast on television or in other media".
If we go to the sources that have generated this conflict, that is, to the program, the facts were the following: in August of last year, a young man whose image was pixelated and who, consequently, could not be identified, was invited to the program from Al Ghaity to talk about her life as a sex worker and more specifically her relationship with a man from a Persian Gulf country. The young man answered questions such as: «Have you entered the world of prostitution as a man? Were you wanted? or what was your price? ". And here is where Sabry's accusation grounds his argument for considering that, when the presenter "He began to mention the economic gains of the practices of homosexuality that the homosexual obtained", I was doing "a call to propagate debauchery ". That's projecting and the other nonsense.
The fact is that after the program was broadcast, it was suspended for two weeks by the Supreme Council for Regulation of the Media due to "Repeated violations of the channel". Then the complaint would come to the presenter.
The most striking thing about this case is that currently homosexuality is not criminalized in Egypt But members of the LGTBI collective are persecuted and punished by applying laws such as the one that penalizes "libertinism" or that of "prostitution". The penalties in these cases can reach 3 years of imprisonment.
Source: lavanguardia.com, public.es
Photographer: Reuters, eldiario.es
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